Subtitle Edit is a free editor for video subtitles - a subtitle editor. With SE you can easily adjust a subtitle if it is out of sync with the video and much more. Visually sync/adjust a subtitle (start/end position and speed). Import Blu-ray SUP titles or VobSub sub/idx binary subtitles and OCR to text srt subtitles. SUP to SRT, SUB to SRT. DVD to SRT. Requires Microsoft .NET Framework Version 4.0 or later.
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Indeed the best, by far, must have IMO. Only thing I found easier to do with Subtitle Workshop is joining subs which need recalculating, it's just 3-4 mouse clicks in SW. Might be doable just as quick in SE and I just don't get it ;)

I work with subtitles a lot because I'm hard of hearing and this is the best subtitle editor on the market. It is absolutely fantastic. I been using for years.

Syncing subs to voice and frame rate is accurate down to the millisecond and easily done, with of without the Visual Sync feature. You don't even have to sync the whole sub if you don't want to, it gives you the ability to sync only those parts that are out of sync without affecting the rest. Usually when I come across an out of sync subtitle I simply wait for the first spoken word in the video, write down the precise time, and go into Subtitle Edit and select Synchronization > Adjust all times show earlier or later, find the line of the first spoken word and set the subtitles time to start there and move all the rest of the subtitles accordingly and check that the frame rates match. Easy.

Editing and adding lines is straightforward, for example, translating foreign language parts into English, (it has a great auto-translate feature) and replacing them. There are some movies where the actors are speaking a foreign language in some parts but don't show the English subs for it and it's annoying not knowing what they're talking about. I used Subtitle Edit to create English subs for the Italian language miniseries Il Capo Dei Capi and it came out quite good.

Subtitle Edit can also convert from one sub format to many others, useful for if your media player doesn't accept, say Advanced SubStation Alpha (ASS) subtitles, you can easily convert it to SRT or whatnot.

Nikolaj Lynge Olsson the talented developer of Subtitle Edit frequently updates the program, and unlike other developers, his updates always improve the program, not screw it up.

I really appreciate that he freely shares this program with everybody. When I get my Christmas money I plan on making a donation to the developer for this gem of an app.

Looks pretty good, but has quite a bunch of practically unusable stuff that could have been lots better. Like the horrible default Video-player, correcting tools which aren't configurable at all, and a lot of other worthless stuff.

If only Subtitle Workshop was still being developed, it was so much more clever & configurable, but unfortunately does not handle UTF-8 files correctly.

English OCR works well. Managed to OCR entire SUB file with only minor corrections in words needed. Less then a minute needed to adjust subtitles that were off by a few seconds. Creating subtitles is tedious, but simple enough to do. Appending subtitles (joining) was slightly complicated, however worked. You can use this to save subs as different formats. The interface was confusing for the first few runs, and I suggest becoming comfortable with what everything does. Overall, this deserves a '9'.

To the earlier poster,if you look on the front of the menu you will see adjust all times with show earlier and show later,that's your shift.I use the program all the time with the newest version to stretch and fix errors and works great.

Downloaded this to do one thing and one thing only: to shift selected dialogs a few seconds forward. It can be done easily with most subtitle softwares. Subtitle Workshop can, with ease. So does Aegisub. Subtitle Edit, although look simple and much more polished than the two, frankly just baffles me. There is no SHIFT function.

This is something new and unusual.
An open source subtitle tool, that has already got a couple of novelties implemented.
Worth to check out if you work with subtitles a lot.
I've reported a couple of minor bugs, but it seems that this tool is a promising one.
I hope that more programmers will co-operate with the author.
Thank you, Mr. Olsson.

Posted October 26, 2009 by Jeremiah58.

Tool version 2.8.2.
using OS WinXP

Ease of use 8
of 10

Functionality 8
of 10

Value for money 10
of 10

Overall score 9
of 10

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